Quote Originally Posted by Agent Miles
Thanks! This looked like a train wreck, so I just decided to go out fighting. When Saladin routed I did a Ctrl+A advance. Then he rallied and counter-attacked. I thought that I had walked into a trap. Fortunately, the Genoese saved my crusader's butt. Toujours l'audace!
Weirdly, this makes me remember of one of my very frst battle, years ago. I had MTW, but played only a few games, and went back to that game when the eras box went out (last summer?).

I was playing the polish, attacking a small army in a bordering province (can't remember which) and my king got decapitated by the first rock fired by the enemy catapult!!!! I was routed like a bunch of rabbits while having three times more fighters!!!

Following the routing units was a very good idea, this didn't give them time to reassemble their freaking minds, and so they couldn't "build" a new wave. You could take the units one by one, even with tired defenders!